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Regarding binaries, I know these could be useful and I'd like to provide them, but I'm afraid some "not (yet?) very popular mirroring project" can't show how we can trust it regarding binaries. After all, a known site like SF is untrustable, so why would an unknown site would be more?

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Yes, this is a more challenging and potentially risky one.

I think you're taking the right approach by capturing the code and the history. In fact, I think you're going above and beyond what most people should ask for or expect.

Seems you could just side-step SF directly in this case and contact one of their mirrors:

http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Join%20as%20a%2...

http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Mirrors/

I bet at least one techie working at one of those organisations would lend a sympathetic ear to the effort, if you could find them

edit: running 'rsync -r' on a local mirror shows 512,000 directories from a..ju, but only 43k files. Mirroring all the downloads should be easy

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